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The World’s Leading IPTV Event - over 5500 attendees in 2008
To register please call the booking hotline on
+44 (0)203 3773 201
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Over 400 speakers from telecoms, cable, satellite and mobile operators and leading content owners
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The conference will feature over 30 telcos and ISPs discussing IPTV service deployment issues
- Free exhibition only passes available (online registration necessary, please click here to register)
- Combined networking opportunities within the joined exhibition area
- To download a copy of the Guardian IPTV Supplement click here
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Jean Charles De Keyser,
Executive Chairman of the Board, Skynet Belgacom TV
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Tim Pearson,
Director of Digital TV, Orange UK
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Rahul Chakkara, Controller of TV Platforms, BBC
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Marc Watson, Commercial Director, BT Vision
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Jonathan Sykes, Managing Director, Content Strategy, Tiscali
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Eirik Gundegjerde, CEO, Lyse Tele, Norway
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Marc Schwarze,
IPTV Senior Manager,
Deutsche Telekom,
Germany
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Stefane France,
Vice President,
TV International,
France Telecom
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Thor Jes Thorisson,
CTO, Siminn, Iceland
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Franz Kurath, Director of Business Development, AT&T, USA
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Vincent Dureau, Head of TV, Google, USA
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Hugo Suidman,
Marketing Manager, Interactive TV,
KPN
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Joăo Mendes Pedro,
IPTV Business Manager,
Sonaecom
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Markus Gisi,
Head of TV Services,
Swisscom
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Stephen Kim, Director of Content, HanaroMedia, Korea
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Helmut Leopold, Director, Platform and Technology Management, Telekom Austria AG
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Vedran Perišic, Director Content Development & Support Department, T-Com, Croatia
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Alessandro Petazzi, Head of Media & IPTV, Fastweb
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Markus Golder, FixedLine
Marketing Director, BTC (Bulgaria Telecom)
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Stefano Nocentini, Head of TILab-Innovation, Engineering and Testing, Telecom Italia
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Rudolf Skobe, Managing Director, SiOL, Slovenia
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Zouheir Mansourati, Vice President, Technology Strategy, Telus
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Dan O’Callaghan, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Verizon Communications
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Jukka Helin, Director TV, Content & Digital Home, TeliaSonera, Finland
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Co-hosted Events in 2008
Please click here for the 2008 Multi Stream brochure
Beyond IPTV....video-over-IP 
IPTV has completed stage one of its growth, moving from a technology concept at the start of the decade to a real service that, in some countries, has now achieved mass-market status. With deployment and scale come new challenges related to the every-day business of delivering TV, including successful provisioning, customer care and the guarantee of uninterrupted 'reception' and robust picture quality.
It was clear from IPTV World Forum 2007 that the IPTV sector is in the midst of a reality-check, addressing the basics of good service provision in the knowledge that cable and satellite operators are fighting back. The vision is still there, including the ultimate ambition - contained within many IPTV providers to de-couple television from schedules and deliver a truly personalised experience that is also available anytime, anywhere. But moving forwards, IPTV is as much about the engine room as the boardroom.
Delegates who attended IPTV World Forum over the last three years will be familiar with the questions that dominated phase one, the lengthy debates that surrounded them and the subsequent answers. Does IPTV technology work? Absolutely. Is there a business model? Yes - several, in fact. Can broadband providers and telcos attract the right content? Clearly many of them can. Can telcos get their heads around television culture, pricing and packaging? If they employ the right people. Can they scale economically and quickly? Clearly, if they choose a suitable technology ecosystem. Can they deliver HD over DSL? They can with ADSL2+.
But just as one set of questions is answered, others reveal themselves. In this highly dynamic marketplace, telcos and other broadband providers still have to prove that they can really differentiate themselves from cable, that they can hang on to the customers they acquire, and that they can make real money from video. Crucially, they have to demonstrate that they can keep their broadband and voice competitors at bay. They need to prove that they can create the open, standards-based systems that can make converged, cross-platform service delivery a reality.
The largest IPTV providers have to demonstrate that they can achieve significant Pay TV penetration by hitting millions of subscribers rather than hundreds of thousands. They have to show that they are not simply warming up the video-over-IP marketplace, driving middleware, headend and set-top box costs down to a point where their larger and more experienced cable and satellite rivals step into the IPTV game - and clean up.
Indeed, the impending arrival of 'cable IPTV' and 'satellite IPTV' introduce a significant new dynamic to this market. The anticipated use of IP as the delivery mechanism for television on these networks redefines IPTV, expanding its boundaries far beyond what has, until now, been considered a telco-centric activity. And in keeping with this important trend, IPTV World Forum 2008 is also expanding its scope to encompass the emergence and impact of IP television over cable and hybrid satellite/broadband networks.
For 2008, this event will address the specific issues associated with the next generation of cable TV as it seeks more multicasting, unicasting, switching and IP switching. In one of many carefully constructed conference streams, 'IP Cable' will cover Switched Digital Video, channel bonding, DOCSIS video, DOCSIS bypass, fibre-to-the-premise, one-to-one advertising and all the transport, headend and customer premise technology considerations that fall within these subject headings.
The vision for 'IP Cable', the business rationale and the migration strategies that can make it achievable will fall under the microscope at IPTV World Forum 2008. IP Cable is an important addition and joins TV-over-Net (Internet TV) and The Connected Home (customer premise, networking and super-distribution) among the stand-alone conference streams that enhance the overall value of this event. It is now possible to take three days out of the office and gather intelligence about IP video across all the platforms it shapes.
Increasingly a mix of new media and old, incorporating 'classic' IPTV, Internet TV, cable, satellite and mobile, IPTV World Forum is delivering a truly converged conference/exhibition fit for an industry where platform boundaries are really starting to blur. This conference/exhibition attracts delegates and speakers from all parts of the television delivery chain, from content producers, owners and distributors, through channel owners and broadcasters, to platform operators. The exhibition is significant and growing, and has achieved the critical mass that makes it a chosen industry meeting and networking venue.
At the heart of everything at IPTV World Forum is IP video. Leading from the front in 2008, as they have at our last three annual exhibitions, are the telcos, ISPs and other alternative broadband providers. As always, this event will address all the significant telco-centric IPTV issues with rigour and insight. Across all conference streams there will be the usual - and almost unique - emphasis on speakers from operators and content owners: those people who make the big decisions and drive deployments.
As always, the aim will be to pass on practical experience and best practice in speaker sessions and unravel complex issues in the many panel discussions.
We hope you will join us for what is now the undisputed No.1 video-over-IP event in the world.
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